{"id":13349,"date":"2015-10-06T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=13349"},"modified":"2015-10-06T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:49:30","slug":"the-yearly-vw-bus-madness-a-week-end-cigar-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/the-yearly-vw-bus-madness-a-week-end-cigar-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yearly VW Bus Madness \u2013 A Week-End Cigar Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The yearly madness is a one week-end yearly holiday ritual for Jos driving the vintage VW bus and having a good time with Frank and me.<\/p>\n

The bus arrived in front of my village Caf\u00e9 with 4 hrs of driving already on them from Belgium.
\nWe had a bite to eat, a coffee and a cigar and we left at noon with another 5 hrs of road awaiting us.<\/p>\n

Fortunately this time the driving was smooth and except for some light traffic jam at Heilbronn it was easy riding and we even stopped for a sandwich on the way.<\/p>\n

Well, we also stopped to ventilate the bus and get some visibility inside the foggy cabin, as we were all three smoking cigars \u2013 Jos only in between the cigarettes he basically eats, but Frank and I seriously enjoying them.<\/p>\n

After a quick shower at our hotel by Lake Constance we proceeded to meet Urs and Marc and were greeted at Portmann Cigars by Xiomara, an El Laguito roller on tour. Great welcome !<\/p>\n

It was the same ritual as every visit, coffee, cigars, chat, gossip, more cigars, shopping and more cigars in the lounge before going out for dinner.<\/p>\n

This time the place selected by Urs was R\u00f6ssli, a beautiful restaurant<\/a> that serves fantastic deer and wild boar dishes and has a smoking section.<\/p>\n

There we were joined by Yannick and Koen, a welcome addition as Yannick and I had some planning to do for the upcoming Cuba vacation so the table became fully multi-lingual as Swiss-German-Flemish-Spanish and English were exchanged fluidly.<\/p>\n

Talk about exchange \u2013 Urs was extremely kind in offering the 2013 Punch EL, a cigar I was to enjoy later in my village. I offered the Bushido and later the Serbia ER\u2019s and smoked a custom rolled Salomones after dinner.<\/p>\n

Not only did we smoke another cigar at the lounge but then we sat in the hotel terrace until 01 am talking, smoking, exchanging gossip, plans and information.<\/p>\n

A very short night followed and we were back in the hotel terrace having coffee and a cigar for breakfast.<\/p>\n

It was another coffee at Portmann\u2019s while doing some cigar shopping with the best service in the world and smoking a small cigar.<\/p>\n

We left Kreuzlingen for St. Gallen, followed the wrong GPS data and lost half an hour. So what \u2013 the weather was great, skies blue, sun shining, great scenery around us and we were having fun.
\nAnother coffee and a cigar in St. Gallen, it was almost hot under the noon sun.<\/p>\n

We drove on to Lucerne \u2013 which was a, well, let\u2019s say it nicely an \u2026 interesting city. Yes, very close to \u201cnice\u201d city in my book.<\/p>\n

That is of course ignoring the giant traffic jam to enter the damm city, finding a parking space miles away, the busloads of tourists, the on-going carnival by the lake, the masses of more tourists with selfie sticks, the horrendous prices charged for ridiculous small meals, the swimming back against the hordes of more tourists only to find the old bridge, which was the reason of our visit \u2026 closed for renovation !<\/p>\n

OK, fortunately driving out of Lucerne was faster than driving in, so I don\u2019t really mind. In fact, I only swore and cursed the city until we reached Germany \u2026. Just don\u2019t ever take me back there !<\/p>\n

We arrived in time for dinner at Caf\u00e9 Fritz and then we had the best cigar of the week-end, the Partagas 170 Aniversario that left us both stunned at the greatness of this vitola. Incredibly good is a big under statement.<\/p>\n

But of course, what do we know about cigars especially when they are un-banded, un-official, un-declared, un-legal, un-production, un-real cigars that MUST<\/strong> be fake as they are, well, un-banded and it\u2019s only my ignorant word and insignificant reputation that makes the crap good and experienced smokers stupid enough to share my opinion \u2026. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll leave that rant to others and concentrate on what\u2019s really important \u2013having an ashtray in the bus.<\/p>\n

Nino<\/strong><\/p>\n

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